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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T110000
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SUMMARY:Small Press Book Bazaar!
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public; museum admission is free on this day \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet us at SFMOMA and around the Bay for Local Affairs\, a series dedicated to local arts communities. Join us as we celebrate Bay Area culture and artists of all disciplines\, and share ideas\, good will\, food\, and drink. \nThis holiday season\, join us for a festive book sale on opening day of the new exhibition Printed Publics: Contemporary Art and Design Publishing in the Bay Area. In collaboration with The Black Aesthetic\, Cantíl\, Colpa Press\, The Poetry Center\, and Small Press Distribution\, we’ve invited a number of small local presses to present their diverse wares. Get a jump on holiday gift buying — or shop for yourself! \n\nVendors\n2727 California Street\nAtelos\nAunt Lute Books\nCommune Editions\nFiction Advocate\nFloss Editions\nilletante collective\nKelsey Street Press\nKRUPSKAYA\nLAND AND SEA\nMost Ancient\nNIAD Art Center\nNight Diver Press\nNomadic Press\nProject Kalahati\nRE/Search\nRITE Editions\nSming Sming Books\nStripe SF\nTBW Books\nTransgress Press\nUndertone Collective\nVisible Publications\nWolfman Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-press-book-bazaar/
LOCATION:SF MoMa\, 151 Third St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T170000
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SUMMARY:Girls Who Run the World
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Dec 8 \nStarts at: 5:00 pm \n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission  $20\nMembers get 10% off. \nPop-Up Kid Entrepreneur Maker Fair: 4:00 pm\nPanel Discussion: 5:00 pm \nExcited about this program? Your support makes it possible. Please consider donating with your purchase.\n______________________________________________________ \nWith Diana Kapp\, Robyn Sue Fisher\,\nJane Marie Chen & Tina Sharkey \nFuture entrepreneurs\, take note! Learn from three bold businesswomen who are changing the rules and shaping a supportive business environment for women entrepreneurs. Find out how Robyn Sue Fisher (Smitten Ice Cream)\, Jane Marie Chen (Embrace) and Tina Sharkey (Brandless) turned their creative ideas into winning companies while breaking down barriers. Join us for this important conversation and walk away inspired! The discussion will be moderated by Diana Kapp\, author of the new woman-to-woman playbook Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business. For ages 12 and up! \nMake an afternoon of it!\nJoin us at 4:00 pm in the Pottruck Family Atrium for a pop-up maker fair featuring crafts and products from local kid entrepreneurs. Smitten Ice Cream will also be scooping samples for you to taste! \n“All girls should dare to dream big\, and Girls Who Run the World gives them the tools to not only achieve those dreams\, but to change the world while they’re doing it.”\n– Arianna Huffington\, Founder & CEO\, Thrive Global \nRobyn Sue Fisher is the founder and CEO of Smitten Ice Cream. An ice cream fanatic with a knack for invention\, Robyn founded Smitten Ice Cream in 2007 to spread joy and create the freshest\, most flavorful ice cream the world had ever known. \nJane Marie Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Embrace\, a social enterprise startup that aims to help the 15 million premature and low birth-weight babies born every year\, through a low-cost infant warmer. \nTina Sharkey is the co-founder of Brandless\, a direct-to-consumer brand that makes hundreds of fairly-priced\, consciously curated\, high-quality items. \nDiana Kapp is a journalist and the author of Girls Who Run the World. Her feature pieces on education\, culture\, Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship have appeared in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and San Francisco Magazine\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/girls-who-run-the-world/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T200000
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SUMMARY:DA do SF 7
DESCRIPTION:Come to SPECS Bar on Sunday\, December 8 at 6pm as 3RP Co-directors Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges present their annual Dada Journal MAINTENANT reading with Bay Area contributors –SF Poets & Legends Carol Dorf\, Lorene Zouzounis\, Robert Duncan\, Jack Hirschman\, Maw Shein Win\, Allison Davis\, Tom Stolmar\, Marc Olmsted\, Suzy Kaplan Olmsted\, Richard Stone\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Mahnaz Badihian\, Gerald Nicosia\, Mara Patricia Hernandez\, Santiago Amaya\, Julian Mithra\, and all the way from Brussels –Marina Kazakova!!! \nWe will have copies of our internationally renowned MAINTENANT 13: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art on hand for purchase and signing. \nAnd stay for a special musical performance by Fitz and Webber –Wendy Fitz on Piano and Steve Webber on Bass. 8-10pm. \nSpec’s Bar is in North Beach\, right across the street from City Lights Bookstore at 12 William Saroyan Place. Admission its free. Showtime is 6-8\, but to get the full Spec’s experience\, come early and stay late!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/da-do-sf-7/
LOCATION:Specs Bar\, 12 William Saroyan Place\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T200000
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SUMMARY:Mondo Bummer 10th Anniversary Non-Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating Mondo Bummer’s 10th anniversary! \nMondo Bummer started in 2009 as sort of a joke and grew into a small press / mail art project that’s published 40+ titles. In honor of the fact that Mondo Bummer hasn’t published anything new in a few years\, the theme of this event is not-publishing and not-writing. \nMondo Bummer authors including Lauren Levin\, Taylor Brady\, Sarah Fontaine\, Wendy Trevino\, and others will give short talks on not-writing and/or do anything other than read poems. \nThere will be\n*cake\n*Mondo Bummer books (and other things) for sale \nMore information about Mondo Bummer at http://mondobummer.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mondo-bummer-10th-anniversary-non-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T170000
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SUMMARY:Bedtime Stories: Beach Fest
DESCRIPTION:It’s been cold\, and\, “we need the rain\,” can only go so far. We at Bedtime Stories are ready to have a Beach party to beach about that\, holidays\, family\, work\, the state of the world\, and more! Enjoy the heated indoor section of the Eagle\, comedy\, lyric\, and storytelling\, and allow us to transport you somewhere new. \nDoors begins at 8:00pm\, not long after SF Eagle’s weekly open mic. Suggested donation of $5 at the door\, no one turned away for lack of funds. \nPerformances by\nSage Curtis\nJD Fierce\nLuigi Diazz\n& more! \nBedtime Stories is:\nA variety show with a reading series vibe\nOriginal content from local artists\n“An introvert’s dream night out”\n“A show where your eyes don’t need to be glued to the stage. You can stare into space\, close your eyes\, relax a little.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bedtime-stories-beach-fest/
LOCATION:San Francisco Eagle\, 398 12th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
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SUMMARY:You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful storytelling event\, award-winning performer Kimberly Dark shares stories from her new book\, FAT\, PRETTY\, AND SOON TO BE OLD (AK Press\, 2019)\, in order to remind us: “You don’t owe anyone pretty\,” and “We are creating the world\, even as it creates us.” \nIn this moving and hilarious show\, Kimberly Dark invites her audience to live in the experience of the body\, not the appearance of the body. Drawing from her own experience as a fat\, queer\, white-privileged\, recently disabled\, inevitably aging\, gender-conforming “girl with a pretty face\,” Kimberly Dark deftly blends storytelling and social analysis to reveal the presence of everyday appearance privilege (and stigma). Join her to explore how the architecture of this social world constrains us and how we might help one another break free. \nTuesday\, December 10\, 7pm at Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102\n$15 suggested donation\, with no one turned away due to lack of funds.\n\nThere will be a book signing after the event. \n— \n“Sexy and often fearless and real … Kimberly Dark is hilarious and heart breaking.” —Terese Mailhot\, NYT bestselling author of Heartberries \n“Nothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her self—mind\, body\, and spirit\, full throttle\, without apology … Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of Joan \n“Dark explores the real of her own stories to question the currency of beauty and appearance. What have we actually been sold? What have we bought into about our bodies? Has the exchange ever really been worth the price?” —Sonya Renee Taylor\, author of The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love \n— \nKimberly Dark is a writer\, sociologist and raconteur\, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay\, poem\, and story at a time. The author of three books\, ten plays and numerous essays\, she’s been touring internationally for more than twenty years. More at kimberlydark.com \nThis venue is ADA accessible. For further info\, visit: https://www.counterpulse.org/visiting/ \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/you-dont-owe-anyone-pretty/
LOCATION:Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T203000
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SUMMARY:An evening with Kal Spelletich
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Kal Spelletich\nTuesday\, December 10\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nin conversation with Catharine Clark \ndiscussing his new project \nSignificance Machines and Purposeful Robots \n‘Significance Machines and Purposeful Robots’ is an exhibit of work by Kal Spelletich at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art through December 2019 that includes life size praying robots\, photos\, sound machines\, drawings\, videos and interactive sculptures which explore the question: can technology do spiritual work? Via audience operated robots that are meditative and violent\, Spelletich’s work enacts a liberated awareness and pushes his audience to a creative response to in their own lives. \nCity Lights celebrates the release of the catalog for this show. The catalog is enshrined inside a unique artifact produced in a limited edition. The artifact is composed of a suitcase shell that contains a mechanized spinning stone Buddha\, LED lights\, sound recording of spiritual music\, a speaker\, laser cut text on acrylic\, caliper measuring tool\, assorted photos\, drawings and prints\, a thumb drive with videos photos and texts\, pen\, paper\, laser cut marble\, folded sculpture\, monograph\, and whiskey. The catalogue was organized by Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art curator\, April Bojorquez\, with a forward by Lauren MacDonald\, and an interview by Catherine Clarke that provide perspectives on the work and the artist in relation to contemporary art and technology issues. \nKal Spelletich builds interactive machines and robots. He scours the world for industrial items in which the technology can be repurposed. Spelletich has collaborated with artists all over the world though his home base is in San Francisco. Kal works with bio-morphic sensors\, (sometimes uncontrollable) that trigger his robots and provide viewers with a hands-on interactive experience. His work mines the space between what robots and humans can and cannot do. Recent exhibits of his work have been held in Namibia\, Lubjianna\, Berlin\, Vienna\, New York\, India\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. A monographic exhibit of his work will be presented at Saint Mary’s College in August 2019. Spelletich’s practice is across genres and his work extends to curating exhibits and activism. His projects have been featured in the NY Times\, PBS\, and in other critical journals and media. \nCatharine Clark is the founder of the Catharine Clark Gallery\, established in 1991. The internationally acclaimed gallery exhibits contemporary art in all disciplines. In response to each exhibition\, they also curate changing presentations of video and time-based genres within a dedicated media room. New exhibits open every six weeks. Catharine Clark Gallery serves as the primary dealer for an acclaimed roster of international artists: Sandow Birk\, Lenka Clayton\, Chris Doyle\, Al Farrow\, Nina Katchadourian\, Kara Maria\, Deborah Oropallo\, Stephanie Syjuco\, Josephine Taylor\, Masami Teraoka\, and Wanxin Zhang. In 2016\, Catharine Clark founded BOX BLUR\, an initiative to bring visual and performing art into dialogue within the non-proscenium-based space of the gallery. To learn more visit: https://cclarkgallery.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-kal-spelletich/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
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SUMMARY:Silvia Federici book launch of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking\, Remaking\, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (PM Press & Kairos\, 2019). \nFederici surveys the paradigms that govern how the body is conceived and the disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction. \nSilvia Federici is a feminist writer\, teacher\, and militant. Her books include Witches\, Witch-Hunting\, and Women; Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Revolution at Point Zero. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University and co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silvia-federici-book-launch-of-beyond-the-periphery-of-the-skin/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T220000
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SUMMARY:US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo\, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation\, made history this year when she became the 23rd US Poet Laureate\, making her the first Native American poet to hold the honor. \nHarjo has championed the art of poetry – “soul talk\,” as she calls it – for over four decades. To her\, poems are “carriers of dreams\, knowledge and wisdom\,” and through them\, she tells an American story of tradition and loss\, reckoning and myth-making. Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct\, inventive lyricism that helps us reimagine who we are. \nHarjo is the author of several poetry collections including Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings\, She Had Some Horses and An American Sunrise. Her memoir\, Crazy Brave\, won the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation\, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, among other honors. Also a renowned musician\, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally\, solo and with her band\, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning albums including Red Dreams\, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way\, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/us-poet-laureate-joy-harjo/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T203000
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Room For Dessert
DESCRIPTION:The perfect ending to the year and any good meal. We’re satisfied. We’re bloated. We’ve got those full-belly-bedroom-eyes. But you know what\, Sunbeams? We still need a little sweetness\, some decadence\, some hospitality\, some whipped cream on top of this 10-year-long-year. \nJoin us to make your final course of 2019 sweet. ♥ \n___ \nHAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions. \nThis month’s writers are: \nBridget Callahan\nCasey Childers\nKimberly Gomes\nTomas Moniz\nSteve Wilson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-room-for-dessert/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T223000
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SUMMARY:YG2D: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - The Healthcare Edition
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition an Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \nWHILE THIS SPECIAL OPEN MIC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\, THE PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS SPECIFIC TO THOSE INTERESTED & INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD…\nOpen Mic sharing from where mortality meets the medical perspective & experience will be strongly encouraged! \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition is an open mic event for those people working in & with the healthcare field\, where the medical meets the mortal\, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Healthcare_Dec10\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time).\nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yg2d-poetry-prose-everything-goes-the-healthcare-edition/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T203000
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SUMMARY:Roy Scranton
DESCRIPTION:Roy Scranton reading from his new novel\n\nI  ❤Oklahoma ! \npublished by Soho Books \n\nSuzie’s seen it all\, but now she’s looking for something she lost: a sense of the future. So when the chance comes to work with a maverick video artist on his road movie about Donald Trump’s America\, she’s pretty sure it’s a bad idea but she signs up anyway\, hoping for an outside shot at starting over. \nA provocative\, genderqueer\, shapeshifting musical romp through the brain-eating nightmare of contemporary America\, I Heart Oklahoma! is a book about art\, guns\, cars\, American landscapes\, and American history. This kaleidoscopic novel moves from our bleeding-edge present to a furious Faulknerian retelling of the Charlie Starkweather killings in the 1950s\, capturing in its fragmented\, mesmerizing form the violence at the heart of the American dream. \nRoy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (published by City Lights Books)\, and co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He grew up in Oregon\, dropped out of college\, and spent several years wandering the American West. In 2002\, he enlisted in the US Army. He served from 2002 to 2006\, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq. After leaving the Army he earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research\, then completed his PhD in English at Princeton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roy-scranton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
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SUMMARY:Grace Paley's Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Judith Arcana\, author of Grace Paley’s Life Stories\, will read and share from her decades-long friendship with Grace and their history of activism and writing. She’ll be joined in reading\, conversation\, and celebration by Maxine Hong Kingston\, Gwyn Kirk\, and Martha Richards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-paleys-birthday/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191210T025844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T025844Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime Flux
DESCRIPTION:Our last event of 2019. Readers include Mahnaz Badihian (Raven of Isfahan)\, Ed Miracle (Maker Messiah)\, Jen Burke Anderson\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-flux/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191024T150612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150645Z
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SUMMARY:SOSADTODAY’S Melissa Broder performs “Eating Alone in My Car”
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nSOSADTODAY’S MELISSA BRODER\nperforms “Eating Alone in My Car”\nWednesday\, December 11\, 2019\n7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \nPoet\, novelist\, advice columnist and heroine to anyone with “issues\,” Melissa Broder is author of the novel The Pisces and the poetry collection Last Sext\, as well as the voice behind the viral Twitter account @sosadtoday and an essay collection based on the account. In her podcast Eating Alone in My Car\, Broder rants about everything from mortality to Poptarts to depression while wielding a dark humor that is honest and open. Her other writing includes the “So Sad Today” column for Vice\, the “Beauty and Death” column at Elle.com\, and the forthcoming Milk Fed. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for Poetry. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sosadtodays-melissa-broder-performs-eating-alone-in-my-car/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191205T144504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T144504Z
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SUMMARY:30 Years of Street Sheet
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to our new office to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Sheet newspaper! For three decades Street Sheet has been documenting the realities facing poor and homeless San Franciscans\, and providing a platform for homeless journalists\, storytellers\, poets\, photographers\, and artists who are otherwise ignored. \nWe will be hosting an open mic with featured performers from our Street Sheet team and plenty of space for you to jump up and share poems\, songs\, or memories. We will provide a light dinner\, some adult beverages\, and delicious baked goods! \nWHEN: December 12th @5:30-8pm\nWHERE: Coalition on Homelessness\, 290 Turk Street San Francisco \nFeaturing\n* Tone Oliver\nMotivational Performer and MC\, Tone Oliver has been honing his sound and story as an artist for over 15 years. LA born\, Bay Area based MC offers a refreshing flow and witty\, yet wise word play that often leaves listeners inspired. Oliver has been covered by the SF Chronicle\, KQED and KTVU Fox 2. The father\, rapper and actor is currently working on his 5th solo album\, “Keep Going” set to drop late 2019. \n*Zach K \n* Wayfairy\nhttps://www.facebook.com/wayfairy/\nWayfairy started with a banjo on the turnpike and has grown into a six piece music project that fills the sonic space between mournful folk and riotous punk. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Finally wheelchair accessible by elevator! Please let us know if you need the elevator when you ring up so we can buzz you in the correct entrance. There are two single stall gender neutral bathrooms available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/30-years-of-street-sheet/
LOCATION:Street Sheet\, 280 Turk St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191028T070027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T070027Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Michael Eric Dyson
DESCRIPTION:Michael Eric Dyson Ph.D.\, Op-Ed Columnist\, The New York Times; Professor of Sociology\, Georgetown University; Author\, JAY-Z: Made in America \nThis program is part of our Good Lit series\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation \nMichael Eric Dyson is known for his many talents. He is an outspoken academic and sociologist\, social critic\, best-selling author\, a popular figure in political news media\, an ordained Baptist minister and\, in his own words\, one of the country’s leading “hip-hop intellectuals.” Often in Dyson’s work\, these concepts all intersect to reflect a well-rounded picture of black life in America. Now Dyson has set his analytical sights on someone who\, he argues\, is one of the greatest American poets of all time: Jay-Z. \nJoin INFORUM and Dyson for an evening of all things Hova—from Jay-Z’s humble beginnings as a hustler in 1980s New York City to his meteoric rise to fame and his eventual recognition as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Dyson will explore how Jay-Z’s 30-year career has changed not just hip-hop but also the music industry\, business\, politics and social justice. Join us for an exploration of the life of a great literary figure and learn how he provided the blueprint. \nLocation: Marines’ Memorial Theatre\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\nTime: 5:30 p.m. check-in\, 6:30 p.m. program\nNotes: Dyson photo by Nina Subin \nAll ticket sales are final and nonrefundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-michael-eric-dyson/
LOCATION:Commonwealth Club of California\, 110 The Embarcadero\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191210T034340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T034340Z
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SUMMARY:Performance | 2019 Poets-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of our 2019 Poets-in-Residence program. Tonya Foster and Alan Peláez López will perform their poetry at a reading to celebrate their work created during the Poets-in-Residence program at MoAD. Joining Tonya and Alan will be MoAD Poetry Coordinator and 2018 Poet-in-Residence Raina Léon\, and the Ruth Assawa San Francisco School for the Arts Spoken Arts Director Aimee Suzara. \nThis program will include a wine reception and is free to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/performance-2019-poets-in-residence/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191210T032610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T032610Z
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SUMMARY:Last Voz of 2019!
DESCRIPTION:End 2019 right with an amazing night of poetry! As usual we will have snacks\, drinks\, three features\, and an open mic!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/last-voz-of-2019/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191024T153349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T052105Z
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SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:Terry Tempest Williams reading from her new book\n\nErosion: Essays of Undoing \npublished by Sarah Critchton Books/Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nFierce\, timely\, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist \nTerry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist\, fervent activist\, and stirring writer\, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays\, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land\, of the self\, of belief\, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered\, worn\, and whittled away through wind\, water\, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. \nShe looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument\, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest\, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction\, citing the drought outside her door and at times\, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: “oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system.” But beautiful moments of relief and refuge\, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders\, art\, and\, always\, in the land itself. She asks\, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?” \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She and her husband Brooke Williams divide their time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah. \nWhat has been said about the work of Terry Tempest Williams \n“An apostle of life and earth and a soul-revving teller of true stories\, Williams (The Hour of Land\, 2016) brings lyricism\, candor\, mystery\, and factual exactitude to the deeply affecting essays collected here . . . Williams’ exquisite testimony of wonder and wisdom is vitalizing and crucial.”\n—Booklist\, starred review \n“In a collection of passionate\, galvanizing essays\, activist and teacher Williams shares her intimate connection to the as-yet untamed landscapes of the American West . . . Williams writes with a poetic optimism . . . Stirring.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This anthology of grief\, anger\, and even hope capably reflects Williams’ wise voice.”\n—Kirkus \n“These essays are a joy to read. Terry Tempest Williams is a wise and fierce defender of the wild Earth.”\n—Leslie Marmon Silko\, author of The Turquoise Ledge \n“Terry Tempest Williams’s voice in the clamor is like a hot desert wind blowing away the litter in a crowded room and leaving behind only what has weight\, what is essential. These are essays about the courage to face what is most brutal and monstrous\, by finding what is most beautiful and merciful.”\n—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them by Their True Names \n“Luminous\, fearless\, brutally honest. But with this latest book\, Williams takes her spiritual love of the American West—along with her grief\, anger and exasperation at what we continue to do to this place—to a new level. If John Muir ever wrote like this\, most of the West would be in wilderness protection by now. As well\, she knows her way to the human heart.”\n—Timothy Egan\, author of The Immortal Irishman \n“Terry Tempest Williams has rewritten the rules for the way we must engage the natural world and each other. Erosion is both a shout from the edge of what we were and a beckoning to what we must become. Pick up your courage and this book; be prepared to take notes—and action.”\n—Alexandra Fuller\, author of Quiet Until the Thaw \n“Terry Tempest Williams is our great activist laureate. Working out of the lineage of Dickinson\, O’Keeffe\, D. H. Lawrence\, and\, later\, Abbey and Peacock\, she is nonetheless singular and extraordinarily original. She is rooted as juniper yet ephemeral as a sand dune. The forces that have eroded her are rapture and grief. What remains is elemental beauty.”\n—Rick Bass\, author of For a Little While \n“These are the most dangerous of all days for humans on Earth\, and Erosion is the book for our time. Writing on the edge of the sacred\, Terry Tempest Williams’s message bears the power and emotional gifts of a close call with a charging grizzly. There are no stray words. Terry writes with a purity glimpsed in certain outcrops of crystalline rock or the waters filling a chain of alpine lakes. I believe there is no more important writer working today.”\n—Doug Peacock\, author of In the Shadow of the Sabertooth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tempest-williams/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
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SUMMARY:Ibram X. Kendi
DESCRIPTION:IBRAM X. KENDI\nin conversation with Jelani Cobb\nThursday\, December 12\, 2019\n7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nCultural Studies \n\n\nIbram X. Kendi is a historian and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His books include The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, in which Kendi chronicles how racist ideas were developed\, disseminated and enshrined in American society\, leading us to a present state of racism that is more sophisticated and insidious than ever. Kendi’s newest book\, How to Be An Antiracist\, re-energizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America\, asking us to think about what an antiracist society might look like\, and how we can play an active role in building it. \nJelani Cobb has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2015\, writing on subjects of race\, politics\, history\, and culture. Cobb’s books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and the collection\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. He is the Ira J. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University\, specializing in post-Civil War African American history\, 20th century and modern American politics\, and the history of the Cold War.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T223000
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CREATED:20191120T052542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T052542Z
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SUMMARY:YG2D: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 12\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Dec12\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yg2d-poetry-prose-everything-goes/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191023T083238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T083238Z
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SUMMARY:Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center joins Kelsey St. Press for a public celebration of the press’s 45th Anniversary\, with readings by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, and Andrea Abi-Karam. Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. Forty-five years later\, the press\, still located in the East Bay\, remains true to its commitment to bring out a wide range of voices\, including the gifted work of trans and genderqueer authors. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their third-floor loft space\, this event is co-sponsored by Kelsey St. Press and The Poetry Center\, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Free and open to the public. \nMei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing\, grew up in Massachusetts\, and lives in northern New Mexico. She has published twelve books of poetry\, including five books with Kelsey St Press. Recent works include I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems and A Lit Cloud\, a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith. Her latest book\, A Treatise on Stars\, is forthcoming from New Directions\, along with a new edition of Empathy. \nChing-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi/Red Hen Press\, 2009)\, recombinant (Kelsey Street Press\, 2017; 2018 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry)\, to make black paper sing (speCt! Books\, 2019)\, and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press\, 2011; AK Press 2016) and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press\, 2009). Born of Chinese immigrants\, they have received fellowships from Kundiman\, Lambda\, Watering Hole\, Callaloo\, Can Serrat\, Storyknife\, and Imagining America and are a member of Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. A community organizer\, they have worked in Asian American communities in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Riverside and Boston. In Autumn 2019\, they join the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell as an assistant professor. More at chinginchen.com \nAndrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg\, writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook\, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions\, 2016; download the PDF)\, attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Andrea’s first book\, EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press\, 2019)\, is a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. They toured with Sister Spit 2018 and live in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelsey St. Press
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelsey-st-press-45th-anniversary-celebration-mei-mei-berssenbrugge-ching-in-chen-andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191205T144635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T144635Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Michael Rubin Book Award Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:Join Fourteen Hills press to celebrate OPPRESSORFACE\, the 2019 Michael Rubin Book Award winning book of poetry written by Rob Hendricks.\nThere will be drinks\, food\, a prize drawing. and a reading by Rob Hendricks.\nOther readers include: Truong Tran\, Vanessa Marie Hamill\, Steven Kennedy\, Jens Mikkelsen\, London Pinkney\, and Izabella Santana. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-michael-rubin-book-award-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191210T033705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T033705Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrical Opposition: Unplugged
DESCRIPTION:You’re cordially invited to join us for an intimate showcase of socially-conscious\, acoustic hip-hop music. \nBased in Bay Area\, CA\, Lyrical Opposition creates safe platforms that foster lyrical expression for hip-hop artists\, spoken word poets\, and other artistic talents through gatherings\, icebreakers\, freestyles\, cyphers\, artist development workshops\, panel discussions\, training and fellowship. \nDecember 13\, 2019 Delaplane will host a live acoustic performance by Bay Area based rapper\, poet\, and performer Fego Navarro and Dela Paz\, in an intimate setting. \nLimited seating available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrical-opposition-unplugged/
LOCATION:483 14th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20191210T034611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T034611Z
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SUMMARY:The Fire Thieves in the Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate in consultation with Pam Peniston\, artistic director of the Queer Cultural Center. \nThe SFAC is pleased to welcome the The Fire Thieves Poetry Series—an inter-generational and inter-sectional collaboration between established\, mid-career and new poets working\, producing\, and presenting new work—to the gallery for an evening of readings dear to their hearts. A selection of accomplished Native poets read their work surrounded by the powerful and uplifting photographs on view in the exhibition The Continuous Thread. The evening’s readers include Jewelle Gomez\, playwright\, novelist and social justice activist; Stephen Meadows\, Ohlone poet and KFOF folk music dj; Linda Noel\, Poet Laureate emerita of Ukiah; and Ramona Webb\, artist in word\, movement\, and culture change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fire-thieves-in-the-gallery/
LOCATION:San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries\, 401 Van Ness Ave\, Ste 126\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T105107
CREATED:20190930T192424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192424Z
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer: Dead Astronauts
DESCRIPTION:Jeff VanderMeer joins us to discuss his new novel\, Dead Astronauts. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer \n“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world\, and it’s a thorough marvel.” —Colson Whitehead \n“VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell\, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing\, one fixed destiny\, but as either peaceful or catastrophic\, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates–for these are our children\, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created.” —Wai Chee Dimock\, The New York Times Book Review \n“The conceptual elements in VanderMeer’s fiction are so striking that the firmness with which he cinches them to his characters’ lives is often overlooked . . . Borne is VanderMeer’s trans-species rumination on the theme of parenting . . . [Borne] insists that to live in an age of gods and sorcerers is to know that you\, a mere person\, might be crushed by indifferent forces at a moment’s notice\, then quickly forgotten.” —Laura Miller\, The New Yorker \nAbout Dead Astronauts \nA messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish\, centuries old\, who hides a secret\, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past\, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. \nJeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where\, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company\, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future\, the fate of Earth—all the Earths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer-dead-astronauts/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T213000
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SUMMARY:Vera Polozkova in San Francisco | presented by M.ART
DESCRIPTION:// For English please scroll down // \nM.ART представляет премьеру поэтического концерта Веры Полозковой «Высокое разрешение» в Сан-Франциско на сцене театра Marines’ Memorial. \nБилеты в продаже! \nВпервые в США Вера Полозкова исполнит свою новую программу\, в которой поэтическая часть предельно точно сочетается с музыкой и видеорядом. Стихи\, которые вошли в новое представление\, так или иначе несут в себе отголоски путешествий поэта и перемен в её жизни\, но все так же остаются о вечных темах — о любви и страхе\, богатстве душевном и денежном\, возрасте и людях. \nИмя Веры Полозковой уже давно известно всем\, кто интересуется русской поэзией. Вере было всего 15\, когда вышел ее первый авторский сборник стихов\, мгновенно ставший сенсацией современной русской литературы. Сейчас она продолжает оставаться самым популярным молодым поэтом России\, выпустив два авторских сборника стихов «Непоэмание» и «Осточерчение»\, а также книгу «Фотосинтез»\, созданной совместно с Ольгой Паволгой. Полозкова — феномен нового поколения. Она заставила аудиторию социальных сетей заново полюбить поэзию и стала флагманом новой литературной волны. \n«Ты всегда наедине со стихотворением\, и каждое проделывает в тебе индивидуальную работу. Это даже вопрос соавторства\, потому что каждый читает стихотворение по-своему\, и для него оно о чем-то еще» — Вера Полозкова. \nM.ART — некоммерческий негосударственный проект\, продвигающий современную российскую культуру в Великобритании\, Израиле и США.\n______________ \nM.ART presents a poetry evening “High Resolution” by Vera Polozkova\, in San Francisco on the stage of the Marines’ Memorial Theatre. \nTickets are available! \nFor the first time in the States\, Vera Polozkova will perform her new show\, where poetry is supplemented by music and visual elements with extreme precision. The poems included in the new program somehow echo Polozkova’s travels and changes in her life\, while still revolving around the same eternal themes — love and fear\, money and spiritual wealth\, aging and people. \nVera Polozkova is well-known to those interested in Russian poetry. Vera was only 15 when she published her first collection of poems\, instantly becoming a sensation in contemporary Russian literature. Nowadays\, she continues to be Russia’s most popular young poetess\, having published two collections of poems — “Nepoemanie” and “Ostocherchenie” — as well as a book “Photosynthesis” together with photographer Olga Pavolga. Polozkova is a phenomenon of the new generation. She made the audience of social media fall back in love with poetry\, and became the flagship of the new wave in literature. \n“You are always one-on-one with a poem\, and each one of them makes its way inside of you. One can even call it co-authorship\, because every person reads a poem in their own way\, and for each reader it’s about something else” — Vera Polozkova. \nM.ART is a non-profit\, non-governmental project promoting contemporary Russian culture in Britain\, Israel and the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vera-polozkova-in-san-francisco-presented-by-m-art/
LOCATION:Marine’s Memorial Theater\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="M.Art":MAILTO:yourfriends@mart.foundation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T220000
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SUMMARY:Instead of Your Office Party: Quiet Lightning's 10 Year Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Save the date: Our 10-year anniversary party is Saturday\, December 14!\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, December 14\, 2019 @ The Bindery\, 7-10pm \n10 years to the date of our first show\, we’re throwing a party to celebrate: \n1200+ readings\n900+ local writers\n129 live shows\n108 publications\n90 venues\n60 curators\n10 years\n1 party \n! \nReadings by: \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Old Drift is her first novel. Author photo by Peg Skorpinksi. \nKim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco\, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile\, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale’s. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand\, keys\, pen and notebook and cat’s cradle string at all times. Shuck is widely published in journals\, anthologies and a couple of solo books. She enjoys volunteering in SFUSD elementary school classrooms to share her loves of origami\, poetry and basket making… in other words\, math of various kinds. In 2019 Shuck was awarded an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award. \nSusan Steinberg is the author of Machine\, Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Noah Doely. \nMimi Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize\, and a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she co-founded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Last of Her Name\, a collection of stories\, was published in October\, 2019. Mimi currently lives in San Francisco\, CA. \n&: \n:: video highlights from our first 10 years ::\n:: portrait-monials: get your portrait done by Connie Zheng while you testify ::\n:: make a tv show out of literature (and we’ll broadcast it) ::\n:: have your tarot read ::\n:: visit the wishing well ::\n:: enter the raffle :: \nand more! \nTickets are only $10 (that’s just $1 per year!) but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you’d like another 10 years of Quiet Lightning\, consider being a supporter and donating an extra $10+. We’ll save you a seat and give you a surprise at the door (plus you can write off your donation).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/instead-of-your-office-party-quiet-lightnings-10-year-anniversary/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Alvin Orloff (Disasterama! Adventures in the Queer Underground)\nOlga Zilberbourg (Like Water and Other Stories)\nMegan E. O’Keefe (Velocity Weapon)\nFEATURING SPECIAL GUEST HOST Maggie Tokuda-Hall! \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-26/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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